Kaye Thornbrugh ‘Lights’ up Your Reading List

A good book is meant to entertain and comfort you. A great book confronts you with your own fallibility, your desires and gets you to examine the way you view the world. Kaye Thornbrugh’s "Lights" is a great book. Thornbrugh harnesses the power of her characters to help you examine your prejudices and to consider them carefully.

While Filo and Lee carry a majority of the story. Nasser’s struggle with his own identity shouldn’t be overlooked. Each character has his or her own motivations, and they are nudged to become a better version of themselves as the world around them spirals out of control. There is plenty of meat here, so feast like a fairy at the revel. As an appetizer: “All your talent and skill won’t count for much if you’re not respected.” The context makes it clear that the disrespect could just come from the perceptions of the people involved.​“Lights” is clearly the most powerful and the best-written of the Flicker trilogy. It uses fantasy to deal with real world problems. If you want to feel uncomfortable and comforted at the same time, Thrornbrugh taps the duality of fairies to help that happen. It’s like story-telling is magic, and Thornbrugh’s “Lights” is the conduit. Go get it!